(983 quotes found)
“Science does not know its debt to imagination.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“We don't have a trillion-dollar debt because we haven't taxed enough; we have a trillion-dollar debt because we spend too much”
Ronald Reagan
“A man in debt is so far a slave.”
“To the generous mind the heaviest debt is that of gratitude, when it is not in our power to repay it.”
Benjamin Franklin
“A true lover always feels in debt to the one he loves.”
Ralph W. Sockman
“I go on the principle that a public debt is a public curse, and in a Republican Government a greater curse than any other”
James Madison
“But learn that to die is a debt we must all pay.”
Euripides
“The debt we owe to the play of imagination is incalculable.”
Carl Gustav Jung
“The debt of gratitude we owe our mother and father goes forward, not backward. What we owe our parents is the bill presented to us by our children.”
Nancy Friday
“The world is so full of care and sorrow that it is a gracious debt we owe to one another to discover the bright crystals of delight hidden in somber circumstances and irksome tasks”
Helen Keller